reviewable order
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 304 U.S. 375 - Federal Power Commission v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · 1938Most cited · 606 citing opinions
Federal Power Act
The provision for review thus relates to orders of a definitive character dealing with the merits of a proceeding before the Commission and resulting from a hearing upon evidence and supported by findings appropriate to the case.
How often courts cite the cases defining “reviewable order”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “reviewable order” — 846 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1938–1960
while a mere 'abstract declaration' on some issue by the Commission may not be judicially reviewable, an order that determines a 'right or obligation' so that 'legal consequences' will flow from it is reviewable.